A Sweet Dose of Lily

Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

Fake is Great!

Jeff grew up with real Christmas trees.

I grew up with artificial Christmas trees.

We have had years of tease banter back and forth about which is best.

Real always won out.

But we usually never had money to actually buy a real Christmas tree.

So many years we were tree-less. Some years we were not,though. If one waits until Christmas eve there are some real cheap trees around...if you do not mind the Charley Brown looking ones or dumpster diving.

The past few years I had secretly prayed for a artificial tree to be passed our way. Finally last year one did!!!!

I was SO booed!!

My answer to prayer was not greeted with a lot of fan fair or rejoicing by the family.

We put it up anyway. Better than another tree-less year, right?

Guess what I heard this year?

Many family members (all who were the biggest scoffers last year) vocalising how nice it is to actually have our artificial tree because we are guaranteed a tree this year!

SO here we are on 'tree day' last week.




How very pretty!



Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

See You There!!

You and your family are invited to:

The 6th Annual Frye Caroling Party!

When: Sunday, December 11th, 2011

Time: 2:00 pm

Where: The Frye House (leave a comment with your email address for directions)

What to bring: A favorite Christmas treat to share, warm clothing (we will be outside), and the whole family! :)

R.S.V.P: Leave a comment


Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

A Treat a Day

December 1st marked the starting of twenty five days of sugary treats each morning.



Each morning through Christmas Day the kids hurry down to see what treat they have in their little stocking.

Nothing like starting each day with a dose of sugar!

Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

And First # 3

Last week was Josiah and Alan's first basketball game of the season. I usually can not make it to the kids games but I did take a picture of them heading out before their first game.



Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

First # 2

Our first (and only so far) Christmas card from the mail.



Thanks Heide!

Warmly,

A Patchwork Mommy

A Few Days of Firsts

First # 1

Our first snow of the season.

Cyrus, Josiah, and Nolan



Ekie,Naomi,Grace,Odell



Look at this face!

Lily's lip got zipped up in her snow jacket.



Poor tot.



If you notice in this last picture of Lily, her hands look see through. Weird...She really does not have see through hands.

Warmly,

A Patchwork Mommy

To Dad

I was walking by our dining room buffet the other day and noticed this...



Isn't that very sweet!

I can not take credit for it but this dad is very much loved by many!!!!!

Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

Can You Believe?

Aren't these just a vision of beauty?



They are pizza rolls, just in case you can not quite tell.

This is just a random tid bit of info- between our bread for breakfast and these pizza rolls for lunch I used 24 cups of flour and not a bit was left over. That really is not uncommon. Some days we use 36 cups of flour if I make tortillas or another bread-y thing for dinner.

If I was a health conscious mom I would grind my own wheat but 'I've been there-done that' and is was semi torture, not the taste but the effort and I only had 7 children then so I will stick to unhealthy bleached flour.

Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

Thanksgiving Meal Time!!

I forgot to show off our Thanksgiving Day meal!

How did that happen?

Well,we did not have Thanksgiving Day guests this year.

That is ok because we are pretty much a party on our own anyway!

We opted out on the common Thanksgiving turkey mostly because we have turkey a few times a month anyway. We all agreed that lasagna would be a BIG Thanksgiving meal treat!

Josiah, Dad, and Anya getting the food table set up.



Odell,Grace,Naomi,Josiah,Dad, and Lily waiting for the feast to start.



Joel



Elena and Dad were in charge of the meal. It was SO good!!



Picnic style



Dad...Isn't there a rule about phones at the table? That's ok you earned a little texting time!!



Thanks for the great meal!!

Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy